Nokia seems to be over. Sadly, the Finish Giant won't be releasing any Smartphones anymore, this was confirmed by Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri at a recent analyst meeting in London. Nokia will still consumer products to its fans.

Nokia, the former biggest phonemaker in the world, could get its return as soon as tomorrow Nokia just teased that it has been working on something. It will show it off or talk about it at the #Slush14 startup and entrepreneur meetup that starts tomorrow in Helsinki and is said to gather some 10 thousand people.

The teaser itself shows a new device but we can only guess what it is a HTPC, a TV, home automation tech? Hopefully we're going to know all about it tomorrow.

It's hard to imagine Nokia not making any smartphones or phones in general but we'd wager a guess that it's not all over for the company, despite what its CEO reassures us of now. CEOs change and so do plans in the tech world and Nokia is only forbidden to make Nokia phones until December,31st of 2015.

After a few weeks of investigations, confusion and more than ninety exploding Note 7s, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission has now officially instructed Galaxy Note 7 owners in the US to stop using the smartphone immediately and return it to Samsung as soon as possible. Although the company did recall the Note 7 smartphones worldwide much earlier, there was quite a bit of confusion regarding what the situation was exactly and how to proceed with the replacement or refund. In order to make things easier, here's what the official statement from CPSC declared earlier.

"Consumers should immediately stop using and power down the recalled Galaxy Note 7 devices purchased before September 15th, 2016,"

"Contact the wireless carrier, retail outlet, or Samsung.com where you purchased your device to receive free of charge a new Galaxy Note 7 with a different battery, a refund, or a new replacement device."

If you opt to exchange your Note 7 for a brand new and safe one, the new box should have an "S" in blue, printed over the bar code to denote that it's safe. We have information from Recode that in spite of the multiple warnings, only about 130,000 customers have returned their devices so far in the US. Hopefully this formal CPSC statement will encourage more customers to opt for the replacement/refund.

Just as last
year, Apple's iPhones have managed to hold the number one spot as the bestselling
tech product of the year in 2017 as well. In fact, the iPhone has performed
significantly better than last year, as is made evident by their astounding
sales numbers. Apparently, Apple has sold more iPhones in 2017 than four of the
other tech products on the list from 2nd till the 5th combined. Although we still have a day left in the year, it is being estimated
that by the end of 2017, Apple will have sold 223 million iPhones and that's a
staggering number.

It remains
to be seen whether or not the recent reports about Apple slowing down its older
iPhones to preserve battery affects the company's sales in any way, but given
the loyalty of Apple users, that isn't very likely. The Galaxy S8, S8+ and Note
8 managed to reach a sales figure of 33 million and take the second place on
the list, followed by the Amazon Echo Dot speakers at 24 million, Apple Watch
at 20 million, and the Nintendo Switch at 15 million.